Preliminary Schedule for 2019 Conference, Saturday December 7
(Please note that this is subject to change and that an updated program will be distributed at the conference on December 7)
9:15-10:00: Onsite Registration
10:00-10:15: Welcome
10:25-11:20: Session I
1. Cervantes, Gender, and Power I (*Papers presented in Spanish)
- Eiman Nazif (Moravian College): “Honor, Gender, and Social Class in La fuerza de la sangre.”
- Ydalisa Rodriguez (Moravian College): “Condemnation of Violence against Women in La fuerza de la sangre.”
- Alyssa Pereira (Moravian College): “Two Images of Women in Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989) and La fuerza de la sangre (1613).”
- Devyn Lapp (Moravian College): “Postmodernism in Miguel de Cervantes’ Novelas ejemplares.”
2. Manuscripts
- Faith Rush (Ohio State University): “Saints, Friars, and Medieval Memory: Localizing Time and Space within J.MS.141.”
- Emily Price (Arcadia University): “Illuminated: Pigmentation and Color Theory in the Medieval World.”
- Kellie Mooney (Lycoming College): “Illustrations in Medieval Manuscripts.”
3. Roman Echoes in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
- Kimberly Lifton (Hamilton College): “Reputation and Representation of the Black Prince: Edward of Woodstock’s Fama and National Identity in the Fourteenth Century.”
- Emily Aguilar (Bryn Mawr College): “Masculinity, Power, and Death: Cleopatra in Boccaccio’s De Mulieribus Claris.”
- Frances Hoey (Iona College): “The Intertwining of Paganism and the Teachings of Christian Works.”
4. Medievalism, Popular Culture, and Politics
- Jordan Leh (Lycoming College): “BBC’s Merlin as a Modern-Day Re-Imagining of an Early Medieval Romance.”
- Aaron Wiesel (Mount St. Mary’s University): “The Love of a Father: Parallels between Harry Potter and Arthurian Characters.”
- Joseph Bautista (Dickinson College): “Medieval Tropes in Alt-Right and Right Wing Media.”
- Christine Wieder (Moravian College): “Addressing Medieval Misuse in Popular Culture.”
5. Chaucer and Rape
- Katherine Conner (Iona College): “Sex, Power, and Repercussions: #MeToo and the Wife of Bath.”
- Morgan Machado (Binghamton University): “Merciful Women and Abusive Men in Chaucer’s Real Life and the Wife of Bath’s Tale.”
- Stephanie Gundermann (The College of New Jersey): “The Reputation of Women: Medieval Misogyny and the Other.”
6. Outstanding and Deviant Women
- Desiree Pecore (Hartwick College): “Women Warriors? Evidence from Grave Goods in Ireland and Iceland.”
- Anna Davis (Sweet Briar College): “Felonious Women in Medieval England: A Case Study of Margery Herbardes, Counterfeiter.”
- Emma Hutchman (Moravian College): “First-Wave Witchcraft and Fourth-Wave Feminism.”
- Brianna Schunk (Wilkes University): “The Face of Fame: How Hundreds of Eyes and Ears Empower in House of Fame.”
7. Christianity, Paganism, and Literature
- Paxton Potter (Le Moyne College): “The Soul-Slayer: Beowulf as a Pre-Christian Hero and Post-Conversion Poem.”
- Gillian MacDonald (Lafayette College): “Christian and Pagan Elements in Tristan et Iseult by Béroul.”
- Maggie Shive (Messiah College): “Religious Coexistence in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.”
- Lydia Wittman (Messiah College): “A Representative of Truth: Shame and Forgiveness in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.”
11:20-12:30: Lunch
12:40-1:45: Plenary Lecture by Dr. Elly Truitt (Bryn Mawr College) – “Demons and Divination: Artificial Intelligence before AI.”
1:55-2:50: Session II
8. Cervantes, Gender, and Power II (*Papers presented in Spanish)
- Diana Alejandro (Moravian College): “Miguel de Cervantes and the Concept of Honor within La fuerza de la sangre.”
- Alfred Fustakgi (Moravian College): “Lack of Exemplarity in Miguel de Cervantes’ La fuerza de la sangre.”
- Yaraivette Fernandez (Moravian College): “Patriarchal and Social Power in La fuerza de la sangre.”
- Katherine Garcia (Moravian College): “Divine Intervention in La fuerza de la sangre.”
9. Remembering and Representing the Crusades
- Truman Stephens (Fordham University): “Crusading as an Act of Love: The Christian Church’s Rhetoric to Promote Crusading.”
- Charlotte Utschig (Fordham University): ““Little Room for Neutrality”: Promotion of the Crusades as Vengeance.”
- Hunter Lomire (Albright College): “Historical Interpretation and Depictions of History in Crusade-Based Video Games.”
10. Folklore and Fakelore
- Elinor Berger (Bryn Mawr College): “Deep Within a Fairy Forest: An Analysis of the Conflation of the Fairy Otherworld with the Roman Underworld in Middle English Romance.”
- Jacob Wirshba (Binghamton University): “The Problem Reader.”
- Raven Shellman (Kutztown University): “A View into the Skull: Impact of the Norman Conquest on Linguists and Legends.”
11. Changing Interpretations
- Bethany Friedman (Wagner College): “The Efficacy of the Will (St. Augustine).”
- Jessica Abraham (Moravian College): “Medieval English Crime, Punishment, and Torture.”
- Lauren Walters (Lebanon Valley College): “Crafting Conflicts: Exploring the Impact of the Digressions on the Battles in Beowulf.”
12. Making Men
- Julia Nagle (Lycoming College): “Hominis est Venatio: Dhuoda and the Frankish Gentleman.”
- Samuel Novoa (Lycoming College): “Not That Godric: ‘The Battle of Maldon’ and Identity.”
- John Polles (Independent Scholar): “‘Under the Greenwood Tree’: Hegemonic Masculinity and Homosociality in the Ballads of Robin Hood.”
13. Changing Ideals in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England
- Nathan Hawk (Neumann University): “Sir Walter Raleigh: Renaissance Polymath, Satirist, and Spiritual Seeker.”
- Ally McHugh (The College of New Jersey): “Blurred Boundary, Divided Power: Gender and Vanity in The Rape of the Lock.”
- Klara Cachau-Hansgardh (Towson University): “All Consuming Beauty: Rationalizing Tuberculosis in Early Modern Britain.
14. Desire
- Aliyah Rodriguez (Iona College): “Males’ Sexual Desire as the Destruction of Female Ambition.”
- Christina Marasevic (Iona College): “Love: The Key to Eternal Bliss.”
- Peyton Ahtes (Neumann University): “Explication of ‘To his Coy Mistress’ by Andrew Marvell”
3:00-3:55: Session III
15. Biblical Influences on Medieval Texts
- Angela Ennis (Iona College): :The Functioning Pieces of the Whole “Body”.”
- Francis Hunter (Seton Hall University): “Medieval Typology in Beowulf.”
- Rachel Boland (The College of New Jersey): “Allusions to Christianity in Marie de France’s Yönec”
16. Modern Theorists; Medieval Texts and Contexts
- Isaiah McGahee (Wilkes University): “The Sublime Specter of das Ding: The Impossibility of Language in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess.”
- Abbey Murphy (University of Scranton): “The Principle of Individuation: Edith Stein contra St. Thomas Aquinas.”
- Alex Tucker (Bryn Mawr College): “A Derridean Perspective on Mosque Ornamentation.”
17. Conflicted Shakespeare
- Jessica Rech (The College of New Jersey): “The Pain of a Woman’s Purity.”
- Emily Miller (The College of New Jersey): ““Sorceries Terrible”: Shakespeare’s Double Standards of Race and Gender.”
- Sonya Hennet (Moravian College): “Neither Gods Nor Humans: An Exploration of Tricksters in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest.”
- Emma Marion (Moravian College): “Prospero: a Father or a Duke Above All?”
18. Chaucer and Social Conventions
- Sam Rutan (Lycoming College): “Chaucer’s Indiscriminate Objectification of Both Sexes.”
- Samantha Marvin (Lycoming College): “Criseyde and the Exploration of Social Conventions.”
- Megan Friedline (Lycoming College): “Debt and Money in the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales.”
- Veronica Romanelli (Wilkes University): “The Problematic Idea of Goodness in The Legend of Good Women.”
19. Saints, Bodies, and Spaces
- Julian Zumbach (Binghamton University): “Your Own Personal Jesus: Saint Sebastian as Man of Sorrows for Plague Patients.”
- Sophia Yanger (Kutztown University): “The Holy Head of Saint Catherine: Keystone and Tradition of Artistic Legacy in Siena.”
- Katherine MacQueen (The College of New Jersey): “Subverting Expectations: Instances of Medieval Domestic Fabulism in Ælfric’s Saints’ Lives.”
20. Women and Power
- Abby-Rae Knappenberger (Kutztown University): “The Sultanate of Women.”
- Carlie Gausch (Cedar Crest College): “Proto-Feminism in Christine de Pizan’s Life and Literature.”
- Ashley Parsons (Iona College): “The Power of Women.”
- Melissa Boyer (Messiah College): “The Role of Women in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.”
21. Spaces and Places
- Keoni O’Reilly (Concordia University): “Deterritorialization and the Construction of Civilization against Wilderness in Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale and Miller’s Tale.”
- Mitchell Oller (Kutztown University): “Analyzing Domesday Book in ArcGIS.”
- Amanda Whitworth (Moravian College): “Chaucer and Lepe: A Place-Based Analysis of The Pardoner’s Tale”
- Quinn Haldeman (Moravian College): “Mapping Chaucer.”
4:00-4:30pm Reception
5:00-7:00pm Musical Performance by Alba
7:00-8:00pm Boar’s Head Procession and Supper
